3rd November 2016, 6:02 PM
Quote: Shoulder button for attack works very well I've found, because it frees up your thumbs for other things. Jumping can be a bit tricky, but other than that, I haven't had too many issues with that game's controls.I have always disliked shoulder buttons in general, remember. Triggers are alright, but not shoulder buttons, or putting important functions on them. This is why, for example, in SNES, Gamecube, and such fighting games, systems which have four face buttons and two triggers but I don't have an arcade stick, I always remap the controls to have the medium and strong attacks on the face buttons and the weak attacks on the shoulders/triggers - I'd rather have the attacks I'm going to use more accessible, and leave the weak attacks, which I use less, for the stupid shoulder buttons.
Quote: The PS3 store sucks now, but it didn't used to be so bad, I mean at least it was stable. The issue is when they made the PS4, they back-ported the store interface to the PS3, and the PS3 can barely handle that code. Yes, I've found it crashing pretty often too, on top of being choppy.The worst thing about it is how it's unable to remember where on a search list you were, but the crashes are annoying as well for sure. So it used to work better? They shouldn't have changed it then! Only put the new one on the PS4... I guess that makes sense though, back when the PSP PSN store still existed I don't remember it crashing or messing up like this.
Quote: The download speeds are decent, but are slower than most western company's servers tend to be. That's true, but from your complaint I'd say the main issue is your use of wifi. Here's a quick and dirty fix, just unhook the ethernet cord from your 360 and hook it up to your PS3 when you're using it. A slightly more involved fix would be getting a Netgear switch (5 port and 8 port are pretty affordable) which supports full gig speed on each port. Go for the "unmanaged" versions, since "management" isn't needed at all in your situation and in fact adds a few microseconds of latency. Then you'll never need to move those cords again.So you agree with me that wired internet is faster than wi-fi? I never have liked wi-fi much, but unless I buy another long ethernet cable the PS3 is stuck with it. Longer-term a switch by the TV is probably a good idea, but for now this should do... unless I want to download something big, in which case yeah, switching the ethernet cable might be a good idea. (I already have to do that occasionally with the Wii, since Wiis only support really weak wi-fi security and I'm not going to drop security just for that system. So, ethernet-to-USB adapter only it is, for when I want to access the Wii shop. This same issue is why I never played Wii or PSP games online much, back when you could -- when I had a wi-fi router at all that is, I haven't always.)
As for Sony's download speeds, with how popular their system is this generation you'd think they'd care about having decent service. Too bad they don't.
Quote: The "single save location at a time" is pretty odd, but that internal flash was added pretty late in to only the latest revisions. I wouldn't consider that "worst of all" since you should be relying on the hard drive anyway. It's a waste of perfectly good storage, but not by much. I shoved a 500GB hard drive in my original version PS3 years ago, and it's done me well so far. Ultimately, I'd love to replace it with a flash based drive when the prices drop enough to justify it, but the built-in flash in the later models is just too puny to make any good use of, so I don't miss it.Here's a question -- the first model of the PS3 has flash-card ports (memory stick, like the PSP, maybe?) on the front or something, yes? So can you access both those and a hard drive, or is it only one or the other like it is on this model with the HDD and internal flash? I haven't tried plugging in a flash drive to this thing, though I assume it wouldn't work, but what about the previous models which don't have internal flash memory accessible to the user...
Quote:Certain revisions of the 360 also have some built in flash (8 GB), and when I updated my model a few years ago I found myself more annoyed by the option to pick where to save than anything, since it pops up that XBox interface every single time I try to save any game and then I pick exactly the same location I ALWAYS pick for literally every game. The option is nice, but not when it becomes an annoyance. Perhaps if I could (like in Windows) check a box on that interface to "never ask me this again", I'd be okay with it.The X360 S's internal flash is actually 4GB, not 8. My 360 is an S, that's what it has. I presume the last model, the E, is the same, though I'm not sure. Despite that though, because of how many more PS3 games require big hard drive installs than 360 games do, that 4GB will get you a lot farther than the PS3's "12GB" will. I think a larger percentage of it is actually available too.
Additionally, what I like to do on the 360 is to save save games to the internal flash, and game installs to the hard drive. So yeah, I find that option box quite useful! I do that so that even if the HDD dies, most of my save games should still be okay. I'd prefer to do this on the PS3 too if it let me, but sadly it doesn't... unfortunate, now you're just stuck hoping the HDD is fine. This is a new drive so it should be fine, but you never know.